Long story short, we bought a new build house on a new estate 7 years ago. Large development mainly older people very much a retirement village if you will as everything you need is onsite.
Our house is end of terrace town house. The house next door was struggling to sell and for some reason got taken over by the local council as shared ownership. It went empty for a year and then got turned into a council owned house.
A woman and her children moved in. Within a few weeks the problems started. Random late night parties usually at the weekends, bottles and cans thrown over our garden and drum and base music blaring the majority of the day. Within the first month of her living here myself and a few other neighbours had complained to the council. They were sympathetic at first and wrote a letter but nothing changed.
We’re 6 years in now and just can’t cope anymore. Her children got taken away by social services last year and haven’t returned and since they have gone it’s got worse the late night parties happen 3-4 times a week until 4/5 occasionally 6am. Not ideal when we have to get up for school and DH does shift work. We’ve had our back windows put through twice, a foot through our fence panel and bottles smashed over our patio during these parties.
It’s my DCs first day back today none of us have had much sleep as they were out in the garden partying until just gone 4am.
The police are here weekly for one thing or another. A week doesn’t go past without a complaint to the council/ police with other neighbours also calling up.
The main issue we are having is environmental health won’t get involved as she is a council tenant and they have a special department for council tenant complaints. The problem is they are useless with there “we will look into it” attitude but never do.
Myself and a fair few of the neighbours just don’t know where to go from here. Constant complaints just go unanswered. We’ve done noise diary’s for months on end. Sent in recordings from our house. We just don’t know what to do?